Improvement in churns



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ARTHUH H. ELLIOTT, 0F ALBION, MICHIGAN.

Letters Patent No. 102,518, dem May 3, 1870.

To all whom tit may conce/m Be it known that I, ARTHUR H. ELLIOTT, of the town of' Albion, in the county of Calhoun and State of Michigan, have invented a new and usefnlclmprovement in the Mechanism for Operating Butter- Churns'; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings making a part of this speci ication, giving aside elevation ofthe churn and operating parts.

The nature of lny invention relates to an arrangement of multiplying-gear, balance-wheel, and handcrank, hung in a gallows-frame mounted on a platform supporting the churn, the several connections being made with a special view to their ready adaptation to churns of any height` or capacity, and their ready detachment and replacement and The better to enable others skilled in this branch ot' mechanism to construct my invention, I will now proceed to describe the same.

A represents a platform, in which are framed three posts B B1 132 having a girt, C, attop and lbraced at the bottom by angle foot-braces b. v

A shaft, m, provided with `a hand-crank, D, and carrying a driving spur-wheel, E, so as to revolve between the posts B1 B2, is lmng in suitable bearings in said posts.

The wheel E gears below with a pinion F mounted on a shaft, n, which shaft is hung in bearings similar to those of the shaft m.

lhe pinion-shaft n carries, atits inner end, an over hanging balance crank-wheel G, which is designed to revolve close to the post B1. Y

H represents a churn of the ordinary barrel kind, placed about midway in the space between the balance-wheel connection, to be presently described, and the post B; and

S is the flasher-staff, which extends upward through a bearing in the girt ,C ot" the frame.

Motion is communicated to the churn-flasher by means of a bent connecting-rod J, .the lower end of which is jointed to a crank-pin, p, on'an arm of the balance-wheel, and the upper part of the rod, bent at or about a right angle, passes through a horizoutallymade hole in the staff S, so as to project beyond it, as seen, a collar, as at o, being usually placed on the rod to prevent contact with the churn-barrel.

The operator, by turning the-crank D, can, through the intervention of the spur-gear andv balance-wheel connected to' the dasher, produce the rapid steady motion so favorable to butter-making with much less lfatigue, and can accomplish the operation in a much f shorter space of' time than by any motion that can possibly be imparted in operating the dasher. by hand vment needed is in reference to the termination of thek stroke, which is readily made by simply boring a new hole in the dasherfstatf to receive the bent end of the rod J n VTo facilitate the connection and disconnection I employ what I term a latch-bearing, indicated kat L, which Lconsists simply of' a wooden half' box, (not seem) fastened to a metal plate that is hinged to the girt C, and shuts over a staple staff, where it is secured by a pin passing through the staple, as seen.

To remove the churn, therefore, it is only necessary to pull ont the latch-pin at i, swing round the hinged box-plate, and draw out the churn.

-Clhis movement carries round the rod J until the churn is clear of the frame, when it is drawn oit` the rod, and the churn is free to lbe handled for the various f needed manipulations, and can, of course, be replaced with equal facility by a reverse operation.

I do not claim, broadly, an arrangement of frame and multiplying-gear for operating a churn-dasher with increased velocity, for this of itself is not new; but,

Having described my invention,

What I claim as new, and desire to securel by Letters Patent, is as follows:

The arrangement and combination of the platform gallows-frame, multiplying-gear E F, balance crankwheel G, hinged latch-bearing L, and bent'connecting-rod J, with any suitable churn, H, and dasher S, substantially as and for the purpose herei-nbefore set.

forth.

A. H. ELLIOTT.

Witnesses:

GEORGE JOHNSON, O. H. 000K, A. J. LUsK.

against the girt andk 

